Court fines Orica for pollution incidents

9:53 AM MDT | July 29, 2014 | Deepti Ramesh

The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) of the state of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia announced on 28 July that Orica (Melbourne) has been convicted and penalized A$768,250 ($721,387) by the Land and Environment Court of NSW in relation to charges brought by the EPA for seven pollution incidents at Orica’s facilities at Kooragang Island, Newcastle; and at Botany, which took place between October 2010 and December 2011. The NSW Land and Environment Court also asked Orica to pay the EPA’s investigation costs of about A$65,000 and the EPA’s...